On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 01:31:09PM +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > Michael Powe wrote: > > The re module includes the option to comment a regular expression with > > the syntax (?#comment). e.g.
> > Is there a mechanism for extracting these values from the match, in
> > the way that group names are extracted?
> > I don't see one.
> You could write a regular expression to extract them ;)
;-)
> > The point would be that in my processing of the match, I could
> > implement the comments as identifiers for the matched value.
>
> But that's what the names are for, e. g.:
>
> >>> re.compile(r'(.*) (?P<parameter>WT.dl)=(?P<value>[^&]+).*').search(
> " WTxdl=yadda&ignored").groupdict()
> {'parameter': 'WTxdl', 'value': 'yadda'}
That's right, I forgot about the dictionary. Thanks!
mp
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